The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 31, 1924, Page 2

Page Two CHICAGO RALLIES; FOR FINAL RED CAMPAIGN DAYS Much Literatare Going Out to Workers The great final “Red Week” wf the Workers Party campaigi in Chicago and vicinity is being given the enthusiastic support of the membership in Chicago and thruout the district. About 100,000 copies of the DAILY WORKER special cam- paign editions have been’ dis- tributed and many branches are mobilizing their members to wover the factories in their ter- ritory, passing out papers and leaflets at the factory gates. Fought Vicious Ruling. “In spite of the vicious effort made to keep us off the ballot,” says Arne Bwabeck, district organizer of the ‘Workers Party, “in which the LaFol- fette forces of Wisconsin failed to at- tain their ends, and the injunction wbtained by the K. K. K. and “prog- Yessives” in Indiana, we are putting up a good fight to bring the message of proletarian revolution béfore the working class voters who pow have their ears open. “In each state we have formulated focal issues in such a mammer as to fttract the local voters’ interest, and joined these to our goal of a Com- munist society by revolution.” Many Speakers Tour State, Hilla Reeve Bloor has made 37 meet- ings in Illinois alone, while W. F. Dunne, candidate for governor, has toured the state, as have many others. Btreet meetings are going over strong everywhere. In Chicago dozens of street corner meetings are bringing out thousands of workers who, being interested in the elections, are discovering for the first time what Bolsheviks advocate. That the program is attractive is shown by the enthusiastic receptions given the Workers Party speakers get whenever they confront a crowd vf workers. At the street meeting at Bt. ‘Louis and Roosevelt Road Tues- day, for instance, at least a thousand people gathered to hear speakers in both English and Jewish. Especially In the densely populated districts do the street meetings attract: the larger: \number of workers. Readers of the DAILY WORKER should note carefully the locations and dates of the following meetings, whether open air or indoors, and rally the workers around them to at- tend: Go to the Meeting Tonight. Look for the meeting nearest to your location and turn out to make the election campaign a great forum for Communist education. LONDON, Oct. $0.—Military police Made a. series of raids in Dublin dur- Ing the day. It was reported ten ar- rests were made, according to a Cen- tral News dispatch from that city. The purpose of the raids was not dis- plosed. Communist Open Air | Meetings in Chicago Friday, Oct. 31. Wilton and Belmont—Speakers: D. B. Barley and A. Overgaard. Saturday, Nov. 1. North and Orchard, North andN, Park Ave, Wilton and Belmont—All in the ninth congressional district. Speakers get in touch with D. B. Earley. 80th and State—Auspices of South Side branch. Speakers: Gordon Owens and Paul Cline. Division and Washtenaw—Auspices of N. W, Jewish branch, Speakers: Al Schaap, Sam Hammersmark and Elsa Bloch, Roosevelt and St. Louis—Auspices of Douglas Park Jewish branch. Speakers: Louis Herzon, M, Siegel and others. GZAR'S PROPERTY IN FRANCE. GOES TO THE SOVIET Kerensky Followers May Be Held for Theft (Special to the Daily Worker) PARIS, Oct. 30.—Following recog- nition of the Soviet government, Premier Herriot today issued an order placing all Russian government goods, houses and properties of every kind, under an order pending a settlement. Whites Looted Treasures. These valuable properties will be turned over to the Soviet government as soon as the necessary arangements are made. Kerensky and his followers have gotten away with great amounts of art treasures belonging to the Russian state. How they can be compelled to cough up this stuff is not apparent. Herbette to Moscow. Jean Herbette will go to Moscow as the first French ambassador, it be- came known today. M. Rakovsky, who is now in London as chief Russian rep- resentative, is expected to be the Soviet ambassader to Paris. Czarist refugees in Paris are fig- uratively tearing their hair over the recognition of the Soviet power. They have warned Herriot that in the event of the overthrow of the workers’ pow- er, that the new government will not recognize any agreement reached by the French and Russian governments, This ultimatim is not bothering the French any, who see. more . ‘of, the capitalist system® ¢o to an end than that the Soviet government will give way to the cazarists. Freiheit Singing Society Dance Is Set for Saturday On Saturday night, the Freihelt Singing Society and Mandolin Orches- LABOR EDITOR BOUGHT BY CAL DUE FOR QUIZ Lochray’s Switch Had Cash Basis By JAY LOVESTONE. The senate committee in- vestigating the campaign funds spent most of its time in an at- tempt to find how certain labor leaders are ererapting to use their organizations to force the workers to vote and work for LaFollette and how and ‘why certain papers flopped from La- Follette to Coolidge. The Midwest Labor News, published at Omaha, Nebr., and editted by Lochray was especial- ly under fire by Mr. Untermeyer who was bent on getting at the details of the monetary trans- action occasioning the flop by Lochray to Coolidge. Sheppard On Stand. The first witness before the commit- tee was Mr. Sheppard who is presi- dent of the Order of Railway Con- ductors. He told the committee that the protective fund of his organiza- tion which was gathered thru an an- nual $2 per capita tax on the mem- bership. was now being used largely for defraying the expenses of the cam- paign to elect Senator LaFollette and other “friends of labor.” Mr. Shep- perd emphasized that his organization was not departing. from its old non- partisan political policy of support- ing “the friends ‘of labor” when it lin- ed up for LaFollette. He assured the committee that he had beerf a lifelong republican and that there were many republican and democratic senators and congressmen being supported by his organization. Senator Shipstead also emphasized this non-partisan policy for President Shepperd. Cautioned Stuart. Attorney Kirkland of the republican national committee then introduced a copy of a letter signed by President Shepperd to a certain conductor, Mr. Fred Stuart of California. This let- ter showed that Mr. Shepperd was urging conductor Stuart not to sup- port Coolidge at this time and espe- cially drawing his attention to the ac- tion of the conductors’ union in en- dorsing LaFollette. Mr. Shepperd was ‘shown 49 haye cautioned Mr.. Stuy that he should be careful not to late the decisions of the: organiza- tion in working against LaFollette. Mr. Shepperd was emphatic in declar- ing that such violations might incur expulsion. This communication. was referred for thoro consideration in an execu- tive session. The next witness was Mr. Frank L. Smith, chairman of the republican tra gala dance and festival comes off! |*t@te committee. He declared that his it will be held at their new head- quarters at 3837 W. Roosevelt Road, | mately $70,000, and a good time with plenty of music, a good dance floor and lively compan: | ionship is assyred. Don’t miss this} dance. committee had so far collected appro- ‘When Mr. Unter- meyer and chairman Borah tried to get the names of the contributors or the amounts of the individual contri- butions, Mr. Smith declared that his committee kept no books, had no re- cords and was not in a position to give Vote Communist This Time! |the names of the contributors, the Political Camas Mass Meeting Monday, Nov. 3, 7:30-P.M, Speaker 8: Cc. E. RUTHENBERG, Executive Secy., Workers Party CHARLES KUZDAS, Workers Party candidate for lleute- nant governor SYLVIA SELENDER, Junior Young Workers League BESSIE SCHLAEGER, Young Workers League amount contributed or where the ex- penditures went. The Go-Between, The feature of the session was ex- amination of Mr. Ralph J. Peters, a German publisher of the Omaha Daily Tribune, the Welt Post of Lincoln, Nebraska, and other German papers. Mr. Peters told the committee that he had entered into an arrangement with’ whereby 200,000 of his papers would be circulated amongst the German readers in Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota and South Dakota. For this work he is to receive $12,500 of which he has Moving Pictures THE: DATLLY the republican national headquarters, SSSI Err cerre ss MILWAUKEE, WIS. 7th Vietorious Year - Nov. 7th Russian Revolution Anniversary Celebration and Lenin’s Life. WORKER ADMIRAL PULLS OLD - GAG WHEN CALLED TO TESTIFY IN OIL CASE LOS ANGELES, Cal., Oot. 30— Rear Admiral Arthur E. Gregory, chief of the mavy bureau of docks and’ harbors, refused to answer questions on the witness stand here during the government's suit ‘to cancel contracts of the E&, L. Do- heny Interests in the Elk Hills oil reserve as to plans of the United States navy for fuel oll storage facilities. Gregory said answers demanded by the questions would force him to reveal navy secrets. The admiral, however, did reveal that the navy has prepared a plan for submission to congress which contemplates expenditures of $103,- 000,000 for buliding such facilities. already gotten $10,000 in cash. Every attempt made by Mr, Untermeyer to find out the circulation of Mr. Peter's paper before this deal was made with the National Republican Treasurer, Roy West, failed. Mr. Peters simply declared, “that I stand on my rights as @ citizen and also as @ business- man.” Mr. Untermeyer then turned his guns on the deal which brought about the flop of the Midwest Labor News into the Coolidge camp. Mr. Unter- meyer established that the Midwest Labor News changed front after Mr. Peters had seen Republican Treasurer West in Chicago. It was further clear- ly shown that the very first issue in which the Midwest endorsed Coolidge appeared after Mr. Lockray had been in session with Mr. Peters at the Ho- tel Atlantic in Chicago. Mr. Peters told the committee that Lockray’s pa- per had gotten into bad financial straits and it owed him $1500 for pub- lication. Met Him Accidentally? Attorney Untermeyer then shot this question to Peters, “Where did you just stumble across Lockray in Chi cago?” To which Peters revlied that he met Lockray accidentally thru his wife. Mr. Peters refused to state what it cost to distribute 50,000 pa- pers. When Mr. Untermeyer asked Mr. Peters whether he had, told Lockray to jump on the Coolidge bandwagon, the witness answered, “I don’t remem- ber.” When Senator Borah asked him whether he had talked about Lock- ray’s becoming a supporter of Cool- idge, the witness replied, “I don’t re- call.” It was obvious to the committee that Mr. Peters had been the go-be- tween in arranging the deal with the republican national treasurer by which the Midget Labor News be- came a Coolidge organ. Millionaire Comes Across. W. T. Rawleigh, owner of an open shop in Illinois, gave $38,000 to the LaFodllette campaign. Up to Oct. 20, the LaFollette com- mittee collected $246,710.24, exclusive of money collected from the Ameri- can Federation of Labor, socialist par- ty, railroad organizations, and other labor bodies. This means that they collected from non-labor sources alone over a quarter of a million. Lockray testified that he got $1,000 from the national committee of the republican party for boosting Cool- idge. Special Meeting of Amlagamated Militants Saturday. All members of the Trade Union Educational League in the Amal- gamated Colthing Workers are urged to attend the generai meeting to be held on Saturday, Nov. 1, at 2:80 p. m., at 3322 Douglas Boulevard, Important matters will be discussed and your presence is needed at this meeting. DAN TAMNEY, NOTICE! Pl 7 communicate with Orpha Graham, General Delivery, Ravens- wood, W. Va. Anyone knowing the address of Dan Tamney alsa please communicate with Orp! Graham, who will appreciate the favor. of Soviet Russia Workers in St. Paul Are Supporting Emme, the Communist, for Congress By J. LOUIS ENGDAHL. WORKERS RAISE TODAY: William Mahoney, editor of the Minnesota Union Advocate, cuts a more pitiful figure than ever in the labor movement of his own city and state. Mahoney has always vigorously protested his: sincerity in seeking to build the Farmer-Labor Party: in, Minnesota. He has always claimed he was seeking to build toward a class party of the workers and farmers; that he was fight- ing the reactionaries within the ranks of labor who were seeking to betray the Farmer-Labor movement into the hands of the political Bgents of Wall Street. The Oct. 23rd issue of Mahoney's paper, however, re- veals its editor as no better than the Johnsons and Ship- steads, who have allied themselves with the LaFollette war on the efforts of city and land.workers to build a party of their own, Mahoney uses nearly two columns to excoriate A. B. Gilbert, former manager of the Farmers’ Nonpartisan League, for renouncing the Farmer-Labor Party and com- ing out for.the republican ticket; but on the same page, in an editorial, Mahoney calls upon the workers and farmers to knife J. F, Emme, the Farmer-Labor Party candidate in the St. Paul district, and elect the republican, Oscar E. Keller, to congress. * * s Mahoney has put himself in the same class with all the other wreckers of the Farmer-Labor movement. It has taken him a long time to reach his goal, but he has finally arrived. He has-broken his allegiance to the Farmer-Labor Party. His loyalty to LaFollette’s republican party has proved stronger. * * * cs 7 To be sure the ch vascillating Mahoney has his alibi. Emme’s awful crime is that he is a Communist. He belongs to the Workers Party. Therefore, Mahoney urges the workers to desert to the enemy. He has a little “red” scare all his own. Mahoney now tries to tell the workerg of St. Paul that they didn’t know what they were doing when they nominated the Communist, Emme, in the primaries, as the candidate of the Farmer-Labor Party. Mahoney makes the startling discovery that, “The mem- bers of the Communist, or Workers Party, have publicly declared that they are ping to engage in a whirlwind cam- paign to defeat Oscar e eller for congress, and elect in his place J. F. Emme.” We couldn’t have stated the ambition of the St. Paul Communists any clearer. Mahoney certainly isn’t fool enough to believe that the ‘ Communists would betray the decision of the workers in the Farmer-Labor primaries and support the candidate of the Wall Street republican party. He knows Communist loyalty to principle better than that. * cd * * This is the same Mahoney who remained loyal to the LaFollette campaign when the Wisconsin senator turned his, back on the Farmer-Labor Party at the June 17th Farmer- Labor Conference in St. Paul. This is the same Mahoney who went to Cleveland to attend the LaFollette Conference, but who was refused a seat, because he had dared for a moment to espouse the Farmer-Labor cause. Mahoney has now passed the aoid test of allegiance to the LaFollette illusion. He has joined in the betrayal of the Farmer-Labor movement. He has joined in the open attack on the Communists. He will be acceptable to the LaFollette- Wheeler republican and democratic politicians from now on. ¥ While Mahoney goes over completely into the camp of ‘the enemy, the rank and file workers stand loyal to their principles. Machinists’ Lodge, No. 459, of St. Paul, has adopted a declaration re; —s the endorsement of Keller, showing that it is a direct violation of Section 8, Article 5, of the constitution of the Farmer-Labor Federation of Minnesota and “strikes a deadly blow at the principles of the organi- zation.” The machinists declare that “such action establishes a most dangerous precedent and will tend rapidly to destroy the fundamental principles upon which the Farmer-Labor Federation of Minnesota is built aiid will lead to demoraliza- tion and disunity within its ranks.” % : That is a strong indictment of Mahoney and the crime he committed against the workers. It is an indictment on which he and his kind will be found guilty by the masses of workers and farmers in Minnesota who demand class politi- cal action. / J. F. Emme, the Communist, is the Farmer-Labor Party candidate for congtess in the St. Paul district at Tuesday's elections. Every worker who realizes where his own interests lie, and cannot be fooled, even by the renegades within the ranks of organized labor, will cast their ballots on Tuesday for Emme, the Communist, whose loyalty to his class, the work- ing class, has never been questioned, to fight this brutal system of depor- tations, The following workers, employed in the DAILY WORKER building, have FUNDS TO FIGHT C. Anzilottt......... Friday, October 31, 1924 BIG WINDUP RALLY INN. Y. ‘SUNDAY, NOV. 2 Brings Street and In- door Meets to End (Special to the Daily Worker). NEW YORK CITY, Oct, 30,— The New York City “Red Week” campaign drive le going over in a blaze of glory. The final rally of the campaign will be held on Sunday. afternoon, Nov..2, at Webster Hall, 11th street near 3rd avenue, when the candi- dates James P. Cannon, Ben Gitlow, M. J. Olgin, Ludwig Lore, Harry Winitsky, Juliet Poyntz and A. Trachtenberg are expected to address a record- breaking meeting in. both Eng- lish and Jewish. Eelction Day Help Wanted. The New York City campaign com mittee of the Workers Party is asking every member and every sympathizer to enroll at the section headquarters to assist in watching the polls, dis- tributing literature and so on, As election day is a legal holiday, those who have the day off are asked to en- roll now at the following addresses of sections: 208 B. 12th St., 64 HB, 104th St. Harlem, 64 Graham Ave. Will iamsburg, 105 Eldridge St., 1347 Bos ton road, Bronx, and 1844 Pitkin Ave. Brownsville. Hspe@lally are members of the party and the T. U. BE. L. urged to enroll at once, or early on election day. Meetings Golng Heavy, Street meetings and indoor meet ings are being put over with great success thruout Greater New York. Thursday night was a banner night in Brooklyn, Speakers Do Fast Work. On the same night, Thursday, two meetings in Brooklyn were covered. One was at Workers’ Hall, 1373 40th St., in Borough Park; the second at the Hopkinson Mansion, 426 Hopkin- son Ave., Brownsville. James P. Can- non, candidate for governor spoke at both meetings. Other speakers were ‘Wm. M. Weinstone, 8. Epstein, Alex: ander Trachtenberg and Fannie War: shafsky. Friday night is expected te turn out an overflow audience at the New Star Casino in Harlem. Instructions to Voters. The New York campaign commit: tee has issued’ detailed instructions to voters. Barly votes are asked, the poll opening at 6 a.m. “If you have registered on the last registration day,” the committee states, “ you are entitled to vote. Let no one stop you. Tf you are stopped, call the Workers Party phone, Stuyvesant 6647 and we will assist. Or visit the section head- quarters given above. “Do not, tear your ballot, as this will make it vofd. Use only the penci} in the booth, If you use your own, pen or pencil the ballot will be de- clared void. Place your “X” in the center of the square before the name of every Workers Party candidate. Make no other marks on the ballot. Fold your ballot before leaving the booth in the same way as you recety- ed it, Do not give it to anyone, but place it in the ballot box yourself. Do not allow anyone to intimidate you. Vote for your class candidates of the Workers Party only.” . . . Saturday, Nov. 1. Bakery workers’ group.—Labor Tem: ple, 243 E. 84th St., Cannon, Peyntz and speakers of the unjon. Brownéville——-The Furriers group will have its.final open air rally with Workers Party Candidates Warshef- sky, Trachtenberg and Primoff, alsb Lena Chernenko and Stiglitz. The fain corner, Hopkinson and Pitkin, and Stone and Pitkin. Lower Down-Town. — Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America will hold its final open air rally. Main corner, Rutgers Square, with Work- ers Party Candidates B, Lifshitz, H. Winitsky, R. Saltzman, also Milgrom and Raskin. Bronx.—McKinley. Square. Speak- ers, Brahdy, Felshin, L, Hartman, Mary Hartman, Raiss, Benjamin and Royce, to begin at 6:30 p. m. Willlamsburg.—A series of meetings, with Sam Nesin, Workers Party can- didate. *Main meeting, Grand Street, Extension, Also J. Marshall, Chas; i i i } SCHEDEL EXILE Contributions are pouring in from FREIE GEMEINDE HALL Ernest .. T. Ly Cateriaced...ccsrveresssssedssseesssemeere 1,00 Mitchell, A. Chorover, Fishbein, Al- so Gordon and Salant in Jewish. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1924 8th and Walnut Streets workers for the support of the case of | A+ Faticantt -memmenrnnnn 50) Harlem—Main meetings at 110th A Si ot Reet 7:30 P. M. John Schedel,, who taces deportation | M- SAder wmnererwnwnnnnrnnnn 50 Dideeeeer stmt Worke gh uspices Workers Party——Admission Free 4 Lis ar PRG GER. . orkers Party at the BOHEMIAN HALL, 648 12th Street f°" 7" {cr his return to America Candidates Poyntz, Weinstone, Wilkes, ees Fe A Re TRACI Se 8 bs SPEAKERS: b Sai atter: having Been illegally deported Also Codkind, Jampolsky, Gertner, for membership in the Communist Party. m M4 Comrade Schedel, formerly of Fort Wayne, Ind., was a member of the socialist party branch that joined the Communists in 1919, and on the basis of mere membership in the C, P, he was deported in 1920. The presence of his wife and four small children in this country drew him to the shores of the “land of the free,” and he was arrested in Chica- Mrs. Neyins, A. Chorover, 8 Mins, Zack and Gross, i East Side—10th St. and | Workers: Parly ‘Candidates, Tse Lore, Carl Brodsky. Also Sparer H. Zam, fe Boro Park—Jack Stachel, : and McDonald. 72nd and 1st, Kreisinger and Dr. Markoff, Worl Party candidates, also George Siskind. 8 teagan y | meeting, Workers Boston Road, a ous speakers, be JACK HERCHER PHOTOGRAPHER J. LOUIS ENGDAHL, Editor of the DAILY WORKER MAX Bone (in German), Editor of Soviet Russia ictorial i 3 MAX SHACHTMAN, Young Workers League THELMA KAHN, Children's Section, Y. W. L. CONCERT PROGRAM: .. q German Socialist Liedertafel Choir; German Soclalist Maennerchor; Freiheit Singing Society; Interntalonal Children Choir; Singing and Dancing by Russian Children; Russian Dra le Club Choir Proceeds to the DAILY WORKER Send all money to the Labor Defense Council, 166 -W. Washington street, 1102 Walnut Street Milwaukee, Wis. SSS ESS 5 family reunion that had been | Protest against this remnant of Palm. A Telephone Grand 4562 Admission Free v theo nae Sunday, Nov. 2, P Auspices Workers Party of Amerlea and Young Workers League Hllet which A sar i wer iaiecia } nbown-Town—Webatar Hall, 11th st. —— : sexe] |ds issued an urgent appeal for funds ia aaibcsaiion >; Vote Communist This Time! ‘ers, * «i <